Jan Mattsson

Jan Mattsson 2013

Jan "Lill-Damma" Mattsson (born April 17, 1951 in Kallinge ) is a former Swedish football player and coach . The offensive player won the Swedish football championship in 1981 with Östers IF . With Östers he played from 1969 to 1975 and again from 1981 to 1984 210 times in the Swedish first division (123 goals) and was three times in a row (1973-1975) top scorer of the league. At Fortuna Düsseldorf and Bayer 05 Uerdingen he played a total of 62 games with 23 goals in the Bundesliga between 1975 and 1980 .

career

The 18-year-old attacker Jan Mattsson completed his first four games (1 goal) at Östers IF in the 1st division in 1969. The talent increased his performance and goal data from year to year and was part of the club's regular formation from 1971 onwards University town of Växjö in southern Sweden. In his three rounds as the Swedish top scorer - 1973 to 1975 - he reached the runner-up with his club twice (1973 and 1975), in 1974 third place and in 1974 also stood in the final of the Swedish Cup . The attacker came as a winter transfer to Bundesliga club Fortuna Düsseldorf before the second half of the 1975/76 season.

Under coach Josef Piontek , he made his debut on January 16, 1976 in a 1: 3 home defeat against MSV Duisburg in the Bundesliga. He formed the three attackers of Fortunas with the two wingers Reiner Geye and Dieter Herzog as the central point. In his second, third and fourth Bundesliga games he scored two goals for Düsseldorf against Rot-Weiss Essen (2: 2), VfL Bochum (3: 1) and Eintracht Frankfurt (2: 5). In between, he had also brought Fortuna 1-0 in the DFB Cup on January 31 in a later 3-2 win against Borussia Mönchengladbach in front of 60,000 spectators. That was an excellent start for the Swedish striker in the Bundesliga. In the first half of the 1976/77 season Mattsson suddenly went as a substitute, Piontek's successor Dietrich Weise relied more on the running qualities of newcomer Wolfgang Seel . Mattsson's time in Düsseldorf came to an end with the appearance on September 25, 1976 in a 0-0 away draw at 1. FC Saarbrücken. As a winter transfer, he joined the second division Bayer 05 Uerdingen, where in return striker Manfred Burgsmüller had moved to Borussia Dortmund. The Swede played his first second division game with the Red-Blue on November 6, 1976, the zero five won the home game against Fortuna Cologne 3-1. At the end of the round he had scored 16 goals in 24 league appearances at the side of Friedhelm Funkel (38/17) and Hans-Jürgen Wloka (38/10) and the team from the Grotenburg-Kampfbahn took 4th place.

When Uerdingen reached the runner-up in the 2nd division in 1978/79 and then returned to the Bundesliga in two relegation games against SpVgg Bayreuth, the center forward had a 1-0 away win against Alemannia Aachen on March 31, 1979 the Tivoli so badly injured that the round was over for him. In 21 league appearances he had scored 14 goals for his club. For coach Horst Buhtz's team, he scored the winning goal at the start of the 1979/80 round in the two 1-0 home wins against VfL Bochum and Munich in 1860. At the end of the round he had scored 12 goals in 28 league appearances. Together with Friedhelm Funkel (34/14) he was the guarantee that the Uerdinger would stay up. With the game on November 8, 1980, a 3-0 away defeat at 1. FC Köln, he ended his time in Germany and returned to Sweden to Östers IF. He played in 23 league games and scored eleven goals when winning the Swedish championship. After the round in 1984 he ended his playing activity at Östers and ended his playing career at Saxemara before becoming a coach. He was active at Östers IF , GIF Sundsvall and Mjällby AIF .

Furthermore, Mattsson was accrued from 1973 to 1976 in 13 international matches for the Swedish senior team. He was used in the qualifying games for the 1976 European Championship against Northern Ireland, Norway and Yugoslavia, as well as in the qualifying game on June 16, 1976 in Stockholm against Norway (2-0) for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 329.
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. 35 years of the Bundesliga, part 2: goals, crises & a successful trio 1975–1987. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1999. ISBN 3-89784-133-9 .

Web links

• Jan Mattsson in the database of weltfussball.de
• Jan Mattsson in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karn, Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963-1994. P. 329
2. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. That lexicon. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 473